Ceramic Meander (2023)

Ceramic Meander was made with 3D-printed porcelain, using the specific means of this technology to frame the evolution of the line in arts and architecture. Taking advantage of the fact that 3D-printing can make a single continuous line of clay, I used the Greek meander motif to transform the ornamental line into architectural forms. This work also briefly appears in the July/August 2024 issue of Ceramic Review.

Over the course of a two-week workshop at The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, I designed, fabricated, and activated various ceramics sculptures. In this work, I focused on site-specificity and expression of the line, and wrote a brief essay about my process.

As the centerpiece piece in my final show, I assembled a mixed-media sculpture that included porcelain (both bisque and greenware), wood boards, a rock, a piece of seaweed, a barnacle shell, and a stencil-print made of porcelain dust. The resulting sculpture plays with the idea of a print (in its different contexts) and gestures at notions of land art (Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, porcelain as earthen material), which came full circle when I brought the brittle, unfired ceramic sculpture (what we call greenware) to dissolve into the ocean the hour before finally departing from campus.